Asked the PM for a project I'm on whether the difficulties we're seeing with specifications not aligning with intent, the customer not understanding the gulf between, difficulties in getting responses, etc, etc are pretty standard for a project or not, all with the intent to just calibrate my own barometer, and her earnest response started with "no i'm not really seeing any red flags on this one, all this has been pretty normal" and then proceeded to list a bunch of things that are abnormal on the project as we discussed further.